Marleny: Marleny here with todays weather, along with my co-host (motions towards laura) Laura: Hi, my name

is laura. Marleny: Looks like there are a few areas of cool and dry weather in Idaho, Colorado, And looks like the northern part of Nevada is getting a dry spell also. (pointing to the areas as she speaks) The Humidity level around there is quite low also...i would say around 30% relative humidity But California on the other hand seems to have a 100% humidity. Low pressure systems might keep moving into the northern U.S There's a stationary front east of new Mexico. E xpect some cloudy skies and light o moderate precipitation may persist for a few days. If you notice around the high and low pressure systems there are circles and numbers. The numbers as they decrease inwards it indicted a high front. The low front is the complete opposite, It increases as it goes outward. Low pressure systems usually signal stormy weather while high pressure systems are normally a sign clear weather. Laura: Speaking of low pressure systems, The south west should expect some stormy/ rainy weather soon also. Not to mention the eastern part of California. There is an occluded front moving over Ohio, they should see some rain later in the week. Some rain storms are located from the bottom of Alabama toward northern Kentucky. The humidity levels in that area look pretty good at 100% relative humidity. Along with the whole east coast, at an average of 85% relative humidity The northern part of Missouri should expect some winds up to 30mph. If you notice ( points at low pressure system and high pressure system) the high and low pressure systems are very close together in this area. When the isobars are this close together they usually signal high winds. The closest the lines are to each other, the stronger the wind. Marleny: Speaking of all of these low pressure system. You could expect some thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Not to mention tornadoes and such. Laura: Yeah, tornadoes are violent rotating columns of air that descend from the base of large thunderstorms and make contact with the ground. When they touch down in populated areas they can cause a great deal of destruction. There not meant to be taken lightly. Marleny: Nessesary for a tornado to form you need warm, moist air close to the ground. Since Warm air is lighter than cold. Its's forced upward into colder, dry air. Laura: Tornadoes can form anywhere but more frequently occur in the plains region. Most of them occur in the regions of central U.S..A long a passageway which often is referred to as "Tornado Alley", which includes parts of Florida, Mississippi and Texas, but also includes the states of

Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, and east to Iowa, southern Ohio and northern Alabama.

Marleny: Tornadoes usually show up around the spring time. But the eastern part of America doesn't have to worry about many tornadoes. Laura: Yeah, but one of the biggest problems over there are the hurricanes that threaten them every year. Just recently the hurricane season just ended...It starts around June and ends at the end of November. Hurricanes start off as tropical depressions, later becomeign a tropical storm,whith winds around 39 to 73 mph. Then up to 74 mph as they become a hurricane. Hurricanes are categorized, 1-5. Category 5 with winds 155+ mph. Marleny: Hurricanes are usually formed over warm waters. And they decrease in energy as they hit land. Mostly because of the cooler waters. And the friction caused by land. But we wont have to worry about these bigger storms. Until the summer. Well that was todays weather.

Thankyou.